Bio

Dr. Panchan (Pan) Sitthicharoenchai is an Assistant Professor of Anatomic Pathology in the Department of Population Health and Pathobiology at the North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine. She received her DVM degree in 2012 and Master of Science degree in 2014 from Chulalongkorn University in Thailand. She went on to pursue a combined PhD and anatomic pathology residency at Iowa State University. She completed her PhD degree and became a boarded Veterinary Anatomic Pathologist in 2019. Most recently, she worked as a diagnostic pathologist at the Iowa State University Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory from 2019 to 2023. Her primary research focus is on production animal diagnostic and swine infectious diseases.

Certifications

Diplomate of American College of Veterinary Pathologists (Anatomic Pathology)

Area(s) of Expertise

Diagnostic Pathology, Production Animal Diagnostic, Swine Infectious Diseases

Publications

• The evolving story of Streptococcus gallolyticus: classification, pathogenesis, role in human and animal disease, and laboratory diagnostics , Frontiers in Microbiology (2026)
• Exophthalmos and Buphthalmos in Broiler Breeders Associated with Marek's Disease Virus , Avian Diseases (2025)
• Novel Cardiac Troponin-I Missense Variant (c.593C>T) Is Associated With Familial Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy in Golden Retrievers , Circulation Genomic and Precision Medicine (2025)
• T cell-mediated clearance of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) from the lung characterized by machine learning analysis in vaccinated and unvaccinated pigs , Vaccine (2025)
• Development and characterization of segment-specific enteroids from the pig small intestine in Matrigel and transwell inserts: insights into susceptibility to porcine epidemic diarrhea Virus , Frontiers in Immunology (2024)
• High mortality associated with avian reoviral hepatitis in young quail ( Colinus virginianus ) , Veterinary Pathology (2024)
• JNJ-7184, a respiratory syncytial virus inhibitor targeting the connector domain of the viral polymerase , Antiviral Research (2024)
• Detection and disease diagnosis trends (2017–2022) for Streptococcus suis, Glaesserella parasuis, Mycoplasma hyorhinis, Actinobacillus suis and Mycoplasma hyosynoviae at Iowa State University Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory , BMC Veterinary Research (2023)
• Genomic characterization of Streptococcus equi subspecies zooepidemicus from a 2021 outbreak in Indiana with increased sow mortality , mSphere (2023)
• The effect of bone and analytical methods on the assessment of bone mineralization response to dietary phosphorus, phytase, and vitamin D in nursery pigs , Journal of Animal Science (2023)